It’s, of course, easy to find everywhere on the web a kind of sophisticated fascination with BIG DATA. The idea of BIG DATA has become allegedly DISRUPTIVE and TRANSFORMATIVE scientism. Again, I’m too lazy to link: But I’ve even read a little article suggesting that colleges use . . . . Continue Reading »
When he died, roughly 50 years ago at the age of 59, Raphael Lemkin was impoverished and embittered, an unnoticed man. Only 7 people attended his funeral. Yet he was one of the most influential international human rights lawyers of the twentieth century. Lemkin, whom Jay Winter describes . . . . Continue Reading »
by having it address the serious issue . . . . Continue Reading »
So our threader with the erudite “pomoncon name” of Pseudoplotinus gives us a plausible intrpretation of recent events, scandals, and such: So here’s a take I haven’t heard yet. This scandal broke weeks after the President declared the War on Terror over. In other words we are . . . . Continue Reading »
Toward a “Cultic Liberal Christianity” Theo Hobson, Guardian O Priest of Jesus Christ Robert Royal, Catholic Thing On Being Plagiarized Charles Hartman, LRB Blog A Hermit’s Courage Br. Athanasius Murphy O.P., Dominicana Pragmatists vs. Agrarians? Allen Mendenhall, University . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t have time to do any linking, but just let me mention some issues that have arisen through my morning’s reading. The first is techno-surveillance and soft despotism—see Ross Douthat. It’s hard to know whether the main concern here is the government or the . . . . Continue Reading »
In the latest issue of The Living Church , I review James Brownson’s new book Bible, Gender, Sexuality . Here’s my summary of the book’s main argument: Brownson argues that . . . gender complementarity is nowhere “explicitly portrayed or discussed” in Scripture. Genesis . . . . Continue Reading »
Christopher Jackson joins the conversation about the question “Why are there Calvinist Baptists but no Lutheran Baptists?” in today’s column : There are plenty of Lutherans who interact with evangelicalism, but they do so by laying aside their Lutheran theology. They come to the . . . . Continue Reading »
Cardinal Dolan calls the faithful to fortitude “even to the shedding of your blood,” says William Doino Jr. in today’s column , yet the archdiocese is still paying for contraception and abortion. “The intricate arguments they make about cooperating and not cooperating . . . . Continue Reading »
Larry Taunton, executive director of the Fixed Point Foundation , reports on the findings of a project involving interviewing college students belonging to Secular Student Alliances and Freethought Societies: Using the Fixed Point Foundation website, email, my Twitter, and my Facebook page, we . . . . Continue Reading »
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